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From Corsica to St Helena, from Rome to Cuba, from Sweden to South Africa, quarter the globe as you track down the Napoleonic places, sites, collections and monuments worldwide.

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Places, museums, monuments : 33

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Salon napoléonien, Hôtel de Ville – Ajaccio

The Hôtel de Ville or town hall in Ajaccio was built during the reign of Charles X between 1824 and 1830. In it is the Salon napoléonien which houses various napoleonic paintings and statues, and memorabilia of the imperial family. For reasons of lack of space, a part of the collection is on show at […]
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Musée national du château de Compiègne – the historic apartments

Although the royal château at Compiègne had been rebuilt by Ange-Jacques Gabriel in the period between 1755 and 1788, Napoleon I nevertheless thought the residence not sufficiently imperial, and so in 1807 he ordered further architectural work. The architect Berthault rearranged the interior, the wel-known artists Girodet, Dubois and Redouté were responsible for the painted […]
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Imperial Theatre of Compiègne

It was with the aim of entertaining the imperial court during its sittings Compiègne and of providing a more spacious theatre than that built by Louis-Philippe, that Napoleon III decided in 1866 to build a more up-to-date and larger theatre. Located to the left-hand side of the palace (on a site once occupied by a […]